3 d. ago ‘Yuck factor’: eating insects rather than meat to help the planet is failing, study finds

People are disgusted by the idea of eating bugs despite their lighter planetary cost compared to traditional livestockRecent efforts to encourage people to eat insects are doomed to fail because of widespread public disgust at the idea, making it unlikely insects will help people switch from the environmentally ruinous habit of meat consumption, a new study has found.Farming and eating insects has been touted in recent years as a greener alternative to eating traditional meat due to the heavy environmental toll of raising livestock, which is a leading driver of deforestation, responsible for more than half of global water pollution, and may cause more than a third of all greenhouse gases that can be allowed if the world is to avoid disastrous climate change, the new research finds. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago Messi shows glimpses of his genius on Fifa’s stage of fakery as Club World Cup begins

A largely incoherent Inter Miami was held to a scoreless draw by Al Ahly as the opening ceremony outshined the football on the pitchWell, this was at least a first. Gianni was right on that front. On a clammy, boisterous, vaguely hallucinogenic night at the Hard Rock Stadium, the opening act of Fifa’s billion dollar death star, the newly bulked and tanned Club World Cup, did produce something genuinely new. This was surely the first major sporting event where the opening ceremony was infinitely more entertaining, and indeed comprehensible as a basic human activity, than the sporting spectacle that followed.By the end the best team in Africa, Al Ahly, had drawn 0-0 with a largely incoherent Inter Miami, a team that looked in the first half like people who had a dim idea what this sport is meant to look like, but who were also struggling through a terrible wall-eyed hangover to remember which way is forward. Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago How Friday the 13th 'curse' started and why date is deemed so unlucky

Friday 13th is considered to be the unluckiest day on the calendar - but many people have no idea how it became such a dreaded date and about the 'cursed' events that have happened in the past on this date

Politics

2 w. ago Monopoly fans left 'mindblown' after discovering they've been playing it wrong

A clip of the conversation was shared to TikTok as people admitted they had no idea this was the rule when playing the iconic board game

Sport

3 w. ago Chilling red flags everyone missed before 'killer' dad Travis Decker 'snapped and murdered his three daughters'

Whitney Decker, the mother of three girls who were allegedly murdered by their father Travis, had no idea that he was close to snapping... until people close to them detailed the red flags.

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3 w. ago You've been pronouncing Tony's chocolate wrong this whole time

Tony's Chocolonely is a popular brand known for its ethical approach to chocolate - but it turns out people have no idea what the correct name is

Politics

3 w. ago No prospect of universal winter fuel payment, says pensions minister

Torsten Bell said he thinks most people agree ‘it’s not a good idea that we have a system paying a few hundreds of pounds to millionaires’.

Politics

3 w. ago ‘Our fantasy of love has to do with need and dependency’: Melissa Febos on her year of celibacy

Febos’ life flourished while taking a year off sex and dating. In a new memoir, The Dry Season, the author explores the strong hold romance had on herWhen Melissa Febos decided to be celibate for a year – after what she describes as a “ravaging vortex of a relationship” and “five other brief entanglements” – she felt “pretty self-conscious and kind of weird”. But other people’s reactions surprised her.“I thought people were going to laugh at me or be like, that sounds boring, but so many people would lean in and either get this eager look on their face or this sort of dreadful look on their face, and they would say, ‘Oh, I think I should probably do that too,’” she says.
“I had no idea how many people had been in relationships for their whole adult life.” Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago Demi Adejuyigbe: ‘Everything I do is because of my love for Ocean’s Eleven’

The comedian and TV writer on a cringeworthy moment with Charli xcx, his viral September videos, and why we should forgive Don Cheadle’s cockney accentGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailOn 21 September each year between 2016 and 2021, you made a series of increasingly elaborate tributes to the Earth, Wind and Fire song September that were viewed millions of times. Do you hate that song now?I do feel stressed whenever I hear September, but I try to ignore it. A few years ago, before the last video came out, I had a panic attack at a Home Depot simply by imagining that it came on. That’s when I was like, I gotta stop doing this – I don’t think I enjoy it any more. I made people think I really love that song. It was just a fun idea. I don’t want people to feel bad for me. I was hoist by my own petard. I’m the one who made it a thing! Continue reading...

Politics

4 w. ago Voices: Oh dear, m’lud: It’s never a good idea to call people Nazis if they are not Nazis

The attorney general Lord Harmer has compared the rise of Reform to 1930s Germany – and it’s not only a mistake but a sign that Labour may be losing its battle with Nigel Farage, writes John Rentoul

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